RAE, Jude, 1956-
Portrait of Owen G. Glenn (Painting)
The daughter of a realist painter, Jude Rae was
enrolled in art classes at the Julian Ashton Art
School in Sydney at the age of 11 years.
Despite the school being located in The Rocks,
near the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Julian
Ashton approach to art education is traditional,
with strong emphasis on drawing skills. Introduced
to the work of the Old Masters there, Jude Rae
went on to study for a degree in Art History at
Sydney University which she completed in 1981.
Soon after, she returned to painting, working in a
style influenced by the artists of the Northern
European Renaissance and seventeenth century
French still life painting, as well as by the French
philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ideas about
the phenomenology of perception.